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blowback7 months, 3 weeks ago
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> During the U.S. war against Nicaragua in the 1980s, the CIA supplied the Contras (the counterrevolutionary anti-Sandinista army) with a manual titled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare. The manual called for the use of assassinations, kidnapings, extortions and other forms of "selective use of violence for propagandistic effect." One Contra leader, Edgar Chamorro, said that after a CIA agent provided the text of the manual and money for its production, another CIA operative told him that that manual was a "mistake." But the "mistake," according to the CIA agent, was not the actual content of the manual. Chamorro was told that "you should never write that down. You do it, but don't write about it." It was also revealed that the CIA-Contra manual was a rehash, including some word-for-word translations, of lesson plans used by the psychological operations department of the U.S. Army Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg during the Vietnam War.
http://revcom.us/a/firstvol/886/sos.htm
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vettenut7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Thanks for your reply.
Nowhere in my comment did I state that I believe the CIA's hands or involvement to be blameless or above reproach.
What is clear is that the CIA operative's comment was correct: the Contras and the CIA were doing exactly the same things that the Sandinistas were doing in Nicaragua, what the Communist Revolutionaries did in Russia in their 1917 revolution, what Castro and his cronies did and still do in Cuba, what Pol Pot did in Cambodia, and what the Red Army did in China.
The difference is that the CIA "wrote it down."
Same song (written down or not), different singer.
How sad for the people of Nicaragua.......
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